Donald Sangster - Definition

Sir Donald Burns Sangster (October 26 1911 - April 11 1967) was a Jamaican politician and Prime Minister of Jamaica. He entered politics in 1933 with his election to a local parish council and, in 1945 was elected to the island's House of Representatives as a member of the Jamaica Labour Party becoming Minister of Social Welfare and Labour and, later, Minister of Finance. He became Acting Prime Minister in February 1964 when Prime Minister Sir Alexander Bustamante became ill and succeeded as Prime Minister on February 23, 1967 only to die in office in April. His face appears on the Jamaican one hundred dollar note.